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7. 'Russian Messiah': on the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasily Kandinsky's Art in Germany, C. 1910–1937 Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art New Perspectives EDITED BY LOUISE HARDIMAN AND NICOLA KOZICHAROW https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2017 Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow. Copyright of each chapter is maintained by the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives. 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ISBN Paperback: 978-1-78374-338-4 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-78374-339-1 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-78374-340-7 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-78374-341-4 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-78374-342-1 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0115 Cover image: Mikhail Vrubel, Demon Seated (1890), detail, Wikimedia, https://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Vrubel_Demon.jpg Cover design: Heidi Coburn All paper used by Open Book Publishers is sourced from SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) accredited mills and the waste is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. 7. ‘Russian Messiah’: On the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasily Kandinsky’s Art in Germany, c. 1910–1937 Sebastian Borkhardt And then, without fail, there appears among us a man like the rest of us in every way, but who conceals within himself the secret, inborn power of ‘vision’. He sees and points. Sometimes he would gladly be rid of this higher gift, which is often a heavy cross for him to bear. But he cannot. Through mockery and hatred, he continues to drag the heavy cartload of struggling humanity, getting stuck amidst the stones, ever onward and upward. Vasily Kandinsky1 In around 1908 the art of Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944) underwent a decisive change. The works he created in Murnau, near Munich, where he lived and worked for many months between 1908 and 1914, show an increasingly free use of colour as well as a gradual dissolution of representational subject matter — a shift towards a new, abstract art. From 1910 onwards there was an iconographic shift in Kandinsky’s work: several paintings and prints from this period are dedicated to the subject of the apocalypse.2 Many of them display the motif of a city with a falling tower, which signifies the 1 Wassily Kandinsky, ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ (1912), in Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art, ed. by Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), pp. 114–219 (p. 131). Unless otherwise noted, all translations from the German are my own. All emphasis in quotations is in the original text. The first English translation of On the Spiritual in Art by Michael T. H. Sadler, entitled The Art of Spiritual Harmony (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914), can be read online: https://archive.org/details/artofspiritualha00kandrich. 2 Eva Mazur-Keblowski, Apokalypse als Hoffnung: Die russischen Aspekte der Kunst und Kunsttheorie Vasilij Kandinskijs vor 1914, Tübinger Studien zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 18 (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2000), esp. pp. 97–111, 133–48; Melanie Horst, ‘Kandinsky’s Early Woodcuts: Polyphony of Colours and Forms’, in Kandinsky: Complete Prints, ed. by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg (Cologne: Wienand, 2008), pp. 11–31 (pp. 24–26). © 2017 Sebastian Borkhardt, CC BY 4.0 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0115.07 150 Sebastian Borkhardt destruction of the earthly Jerusalem (figs. 1.1 and 7.1).3 The transformation of the objective world which Kandinsky executed in these works had its reference in the written tradition of the Bible and in the pictorial tradition of icon painting (see, for example, the Apocalypse icon in the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow (end of the fifteenth century)). At the same time, by referring to religion, Kandinsky proclaimed his abstract art as a substantially spiritualised art. The eschatological theme of such works as Last Judgment (1912) (fig. 7.1) corresponds with the prophetic tone of the artist’s seminal treatise, On the Spiritual in Art, which was first published in December 1911 (fig. 1.1).4 Against the backdrop of an all-embracing materialism that he felt had to be overcome, Kandinsky preached the dawning of an “epoch of the great spiritual”.5 According to Kandinsky, his art was to be neither decoration nor an end in itself, but rather, the medium for conveying a spiritual message. As is indicated in the quotation which introduces this chapter, Kandinsky conceived of the artist — and thus himself — as a prophet or even a messiah, sacrificing himself for the sake of humanity. The religious aspects in Kandinsky’s oeuvre have been highlighted by a number of scholars.6 In this chapter, I shall shift the focus from the artist and his work to the audience to whom his message was addressed. I shall explain the role played by the concept of the ‘spiritual’ in the German reception of Kandinsky from the early 1910s, when abstract art was first beginning to be recognised in Germany, to 1937, the year that the infamous exhibition of ‘Degenerate Art’ (Entartete Kunst) opened its doors in Munich.7 The main focus here is the response to Kandinsky’s work as described in several key texts on modern art that were published between 1914 and 1920. My intention is to show how some of Kandinsky’s supporters in the adopted homeland in which he launched his new art and philosophy elevated and appreciated his work as a manifestation of the ‘spiritual’, and thus made up for the unintelligibility of 3 Mazur-Keblowski, Apokalypse als Hoffnung, pp. 105, 120–21. 4 Wassily Kandinsky, Über das Geistige in der Kunst, insbesondere in der Malerei, rev. new edition, second edition (Bern: Benteli, 2006). For the English text, see Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art, pp. 114–219 (see note 1). 5 Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art, p. 219. “Epoche des großen Geistigen” (Kandinsky, Über das Geistige, p. 147). 6 See, for example: Sixten Ringbom, ‘Art in “The Epoch of the Great Spiritual”: Occult Elements in the Early Theory of Abstract Painting’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29 (1966), 386–418; Rose-Carol Washton Long, Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980); Noemi Smolik, Von der Ikone zum gegenstandslosen Bild: Der Maler Vasilij Kandinskij (Munich: Neimanis, 1992); Verena Krieger, Von der Ikone zur Utopie: Kunstkonzepte der russischen Avantgarde (Cologne: Böhlau, 1998); and Mazur-Keblowski, Apokalypse als Hoffnung. 7 In so doing, I draw upon an article by Charles W. Haxthausen entitled ‘“Der Künstler ohne Gemeinschaft”: Kandinsky und die deutsche Kunstkritik’, in Kandinsky: Russische Zeit und Bauhausjahre 1915–1933, ed. by Peter Hahn (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, 1984), pp. 72–89. On the question of the spiritual in German art and art criticism of that time see also Rose- Carol Washton Long, ‘Expressionismus, Abstraktion und die Suche nach Utopia in Deutschland’, in Das Geistige in der Kunst: Abstrakte Malerei 1890–1985, ed. by Maurice Tuchman and Judi Freeman (Stuttgart: Urachhaus, 1988), pp. 201–17. 7.1 Vasily Kandinsky, Last Judgment, 1912. Glass painting, 34 x 45 cm., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. As published in Vasily Kandinsky: Painting on Glass. Anniversary Exhibition (exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1966), no. 18. Photograph in the public domain. 152 Sebastian Borkhardt abstraction, of which it was accused by the critical community. In parallel, I will take into consideration the broader context by drawing attention to a concurrence between the German self-image and the concept of a spiritual art which was associated with abstraction and the east. Through this, I aim to provide an understanding of why the ‘Russian soul’ that was supposed to be operating in Kandinsky’s art was considered by some a kindred spirit of the ‘German soul’. In 1912, Herwarth Walden (1878–1941), owner of the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin and a major supporter of avant-garde art, hosted a Kandinsky retrospective that subsequently toured several cities in Germany and abroad. In 1913, the exhibition reached Hamburg. The writer and journalist Kurt Küchler (1883–1925) used the event as an opportunity to write a polemic article in which he vented his hatred of abstract painting and its promoters or, from his point of view, profiteers. Küchler wrote: Once again at Louis
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